Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming.

Hiya.

So, Benny has really blossomed this term.

You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay.

Oh, that's not quite what I meant.

It's free to sell on there?

Free to sell?

Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket.

You sold my guitar?

Shall we talk about Benny?

When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay.

Things people love. T's and Cs apply, excludes vehicles.

This is Scientific American Science Talk posted on May 5th, 2020.

I'm Steve Merski.

On this episode... Well, Galileo, you know, was, first of all, a brilliant scientist, and he really initialized a real revolution in thinking in terms of how do we

think about science. That's Mario Livio. He's an astrophysicist and the author of popular science

books. His last appearance here was in 2017 to discuss his book, Why, What Makes Us Curious.

He's back to talk about his new book, just out today, titled Galileo and the Science Deniers.

We spoke by phone.

Why did you think you needed to write this book now?

So there are two questions here.

I mean, one is why did I need to write the book at all?

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